Editing Alpharius (section)

==Death==
In ''Praetorians of Dorn'', it was revealed that the blood memory method thing that Sheed Ranko used to "become" Omegon wasn't the only way for a Primarch to operate outside of their bodies. The legion possessed psykers with the ability to transfer the consciousness of a primarch into a legionary.

However, all speculation above may now be moot. In the same book, Alpharius himself (apparently not a proxy, having been pulling shit no mere Legionary's body could have done) led an attack on the Sol System, Dorn tanks a shot in his shoulder to pin Alpharius in place then ripped his skull apart with his big-ass chainsword. Alpharius is actually DEAD. Omegon, half the galaxy away, sensed it and decided to adopt Alpharius's identity permanently.

(For a longer explanation: Alpharius has his psyche reconstructed to resemble that of the legion Harrowmaster, Silonius, so he could mask his mental presence on Terra from the Emperor, Malcador and any other psykers capable of sensing him. Alpharius goes physically goes into the fight, slowly unlocking his mental blocks as the Legion's plan reaches its climax. Then he ambushes (and subsequently tries to reason with or confuse) Dorn, who ignores everything and proceeds to shred Alpharius' body. YEAH. He dead.)

[[Skub|Despite speculation by many Alpha Legion fans that he pulled a body double trick or proxy]], Alpharius is definitely roadkill. [[John French]] has confirmed it in an interview (in 30:35~31:30) and Omegon felt his brother's death. That's the cool thing about this book: It shows us that the Alpha Legion is smart as fuck but ain't invincible. Just as planned can get tiring when you have too many twist, turns and loop de loops like these two clowns insist on doing.

Whilst Alpharius is super dead from the whole Pluto thing, there is yet another account from of Alpharius dying that is less known. In the short story ''Hunter's Moon'' a Space Wolf named Torbjorn (insert shitty Overwatch meme here) details how he killed Alpharius by arriving on his ship peacefully and then shooting him in the head.

Well, it wasn't that simple. He arrived on the ship for some diplomacy stuff and to verify if the Alpha Legion were super traitor heretics or not. Basically the Space Wolves squad was there to guard Alpharius in case he DID go traitor so they could murder the fuck out of him the moment they turned. Alpharius saw right through that shit (because duh), but he was still playing along. Then Alpharius asked them to kneel. Unfortunately for all parties involved, Space Wolves are very stubborn regarding such things.

Alpharius threw a stupid babby hissy fit about them and their "rightful" burning of Prospero (as Torbjorn is the speaker we know that he isn't the most reliable source as the entire story rings of Space Wolf propaganda, but we do know that the events do seem to have happened as he said, but most likely the "ignoble and rash" Alpharius was probably just pointing out just how fucking stupid destroying an entire loyal legion and then being self righteous about it is).

Anyway, Alpha Legion fan-wankery aside the two groups broke into battle. “Alpharius” then killed some Space Wolves in CQC and then got shot in the face dead by Torbjorn. Torbjorn then jacked an Alpha Legion ship and fled to the planet they were orbiting, Pelago. He then told the story to some fishermen and noted he would likely either be found by Alpha Legion or Space Wolf forces very soon since he put out a distress call.

A few hours of sailing later a Space Wolf Stormbird appeared from the sky, to Torbjorn's brief delight, opened the back door revealing “Alpharius” (to Torbjorn's confusion as he was notably not dead and had his skull perfectly intact and unblemished) and then the Alpha Legion murdered Torbjorn and two of the three sailors, leaving one alive. This was likely to seed fear of the Alpha Legion into Pelago because the Alpha Legion loves mind games. What the point was of taking the effort to repaint a stormbird was is debatable, but perhaps Alpharius just wanted to see the look on his face.

Now we have three stories of Alpharius' death. On Pluto, where he definitely did bite the dust, on Pelago where he certainly didn’t, and on Eskrador, where it might have been the remaining twin who was killed. In regards to Pelago we can apply some common sense and realize there is no way in hell shooting a Primarch in the head would kill him. Probably not even hurt him. Hell, there are stories of normal Astartes shrugging off boltgun headshots.

In any case, with his Legion's ability to transfer memories and consciousness, even if their physical bodies are well and truly dead, the Primarch's minds may be fragmented throughout the members of the Legion and influencing them to the point that it becomes impossible to say where Legionaries end and their Primarch begins ...again, meta.

Worse still, one of their monikers as a Legion is the “Ghost Legion”. While obviously a reference to their stealthy and clandestine nature, given their proclivity towards mind-swapping and other such nonsense, who’s to say that “Ghost” part isn’t just a bit more literal than first thought? Especially with a dead Primarch on their hands. While just baseless speculation, it’s possible those claiming to be Alpharius are not lying. A Primarch possessing marines claiming to be him would truly make the Alpha Legion a “Ghost Legion” after all. Though there isn’t much evidence to support any of this, it’s still a nifty thought.

To cap this Tzeenchian fustercluck of a conspiracy off, there also appears to be an Alpha Legion Chaos Lord claiming to be none other than the big man himself; when the High Lords sent a dozen [[Vindicare]] Assassins after him, he responded by sending their heads into the food storage halls of the fucking [[High Lords of Terra]]. So who knows what the hell that might imply?

In conclusion, one of the Twin Primarchs of the Alpha Legion definitely died at the Battle of Pluto during the opening phase of the Solar War, the prelude to the Siege of Terra itself. Which Primarch died exactly? Yes.